What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

We think of the noble object for which the professor appears to-night, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.

The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say: 'Willie is no good; I'll sell him.'

Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death.

I dream for a living.

My drug of choice is historical research.